Volume 86, Issue 11: December 9, 2005 North Park Press

North Park University’s Student Newspaper Volume 86, Issue 11 Friday, 9 December 2005
THIS ISSUE
North Park to Host Fashion Show Benefiting Katrina Victims
Karen Roberts
Press Writer
Fashion Show: A night of fashion and fun that will support the victims of Katrina.
North Park’s
First Annual
Film Festival
By Honna Eichler
Campus Editor
Defending Feminism ... 2
Democrats ................. 2
Will You Join Us?........ 3
NPU Film Festival. ...... 4
Food Not Bombs ........ 5
Fast Food America...... 5
Classic Holiday Movies 6
Travel Tips ................. 7
A Sit Down With......... 8
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NPU Security Fights
Increase Of Campus Crime
State Senator
Steve
Rauschenberger
Visits NPU
By Brad Luce
Outside the Bubble Editor
SECURITY: Will this vehicle someday catch the infamous North Park Bandit(s)?
By Anders Rosenquist
Student
Photo By Anders Rosenquist
On Thursday, November
17, 2005 the North
Park College Republi-cans
hosted State Senator
Steve Rauschenberger for a
roundtable discussion. Sena-tor
Rauschenberger is cur-rently
one of several Republi-cans
seeking the primary
nomination for the Illinois gu-bernatorial
race.
Something refreshing,
fun, and different that
allows people to help
others and have a good time
as well,” said North Park
Student Krystal Kofie, the co-coordinator
of the Fashion
Show.
Kofie explained that her
and Dominique Covington,
the other coordinator of the
fashion show, were thinking of
ways that they could help
generate funds for the Katrina
victims. After some thought,
they decided that a fashion
show would be fun and
interesting experience that
they could bring to North Park,
and at the same time use
money from the tickets sales
to help Katrina and Rita
victims.
The fashion show does not
only include some of the latest
fashions, but also will have
other performances. They will
be performance between the
scenes of the fashion show
which include singing, poetry
and they will also be a step
group, the Zeta Phi Zeta
Phatenity.
“We have a mixture of
styles, because we wanted
stuff that everyone can relate
to, and enjoy,” said Kofie.
The clothes that are being
used in the fashion show are
being provided by generous
donations from stores in the
surrounding area, some of the
store owners will be present at
the show for those interested
in purchasing items.
The fashion show is
affiliated with BSA. Kofie
explained that the organization
has been very helpful and
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North Park students and
faculty have experi
enced a rash of –some-times
brazen- thefts and bur-glaries
this semester. These
have ranged from petty thefts,
apartment break-ins, to a
professor’s office being van-dalized.
According to North Park’s
Director of Campus Security,
Harry Tannehill, a former
twenty-six year law enforce-ment
officer, the NPU campus
has been hit by “seven burglar-ies
thus far in the ’05 school
year.” This number is up a to-tal
of four from last year, while
“the number of thefts is up a
total of eight from last year.”
There is no apparent reason as
to why these numbers are up
so sharply, however security
personnel have reason to be-lieve
that a non North Parker(s)
might be “preying on the cam-pus,”
which would be a con-tributing
factor to the influx of
recent crime. This does not ex-clude
any possible culprits
within the NPU community,
however it would inflate those
numbers. It would be
extremely helpful, Tannehill
said, if all students wore school
ID’s, which would allow secu-rity
to differentiate between
NPU students and those whom
might pose a possible security
risk. Without some sort of vis-ible
school ID, spotting poten-tial
thieves “is very
difficult…you’re chasing
shadows,” described Tanne-hill.
As for the recent thefts,
Tannehill could not deliberate
In light of the upcoming
film festival, the NPU Press
decided to conduct an in-terview
with Ben Steel, the
creator of the event.
HE: What is the North
Park Film Festival?
Ben Steel: The North Park
Film Festival is an event for
students from all areas of
North Park to create films, tell
stories through a camera lens,
and then have all the students
come together to watch and
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Photo By Brad Luce
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V i e w p o i n t s
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I should begin by clarifying
my motivation in writing
this article. It is not written
in correlation with any of the
Scopebook articles. Instead
I’m writing out of frustration.
I consider myself a feminist.
Somehow by simply
acknowledging this I am
pigeonholed into a specific
stereotype; people censor their
speech around me or make
assumptions about feminism
and myself. I’d like to redeem
myself by explaining what I
believe it means to be a
feminist—and what feminism
does not necessarily mean. I
don’t consider myself any sort
of authority on it anymore than
by saying I am a Christian
necessitates the fact that I
represent Christianity.
A simple definition of
feminism from the American
A Look at Feminism
Tuesday, November 29,
Joseph Lieberman
issued a statement
saying, “Progress (in Iraq) is
visible and practical.”
Lieberman has visited Iraq
four times in the last 17
months. He cited numerous
facts illustrating the
overwhelming successes in
Iraq. He said that America is
fighting on the side of 27
million Iraqis who want
freedom. The other 10,000,
who fight against America, are
terrorists who oppose freedom
for Iraq. This statement, by
Lieberman, coincided with
speeches made by President
Bush that outlined the progress
being made in Iraq.
Lieberman agrees with the
majority of Americans who
want Iraq to be a success. In
stark contrast to Lieberman,
his prominent colleagues such
as John Kerry, Howard Dean,
and Hilary Clinton, are
committed to undermining the
American passion for freedom
and democracy.
John Kerry, in an
interview on the CBS show
Face the Nation, erupted into
anti-American rants. He
declared,
“And there is no reason,
Bob, that young American
soldiers need to be going into
the homes of Iraqis in the dead
of night, terrorizing kids and
children, you know, women,
breaking all sorts of the
customs of the—of—the
historical customs, religious
customs. Whether you like it
or not...Iraqis should be doing
that.”
John Kerry, in traditional
fashion, is portraying the
American military
establishment as the
antagonists and terrorists. I
sincerely hope he really
doesn’t believe that Iraqis
should be terrorizing their own
people. John Kerry is not the
only one making such
disturbing remarks to media
outlets. Howard Dean on a
radio show also proclaimed
this encouragement, “the idea
that we’re going to win the war
in Iraq is an idea which is just
plain wrong.” Howard Dean
has been known to make
Ruth Johnson
Student Writer
Prominent Democrats Disgrace America...Again
Tyler Gaastra
Student Writer
enthusiastic rants, so this kind
of chatter should not catch too
many people off guard.
Howard Dean is an
irresponsible politician who
has compromised America’s
image many times, very
similar to Jimmy Carter’s
dinners with despots, since his
failed attempt for the
Presidency. The last
disgraceful politician is Hilary
Clinton. She seemingly
supports the war effort
depending on the public
opinion polls. Her position
has changed so many times,
that in order to stay current I
have installed an automatic
pop-up on my computer to
inform me of her position
every hour on the hour.
The fact remains, that the
Democrats are desperate. The
status in Iraq is not nearly as
bleak as they want the public
to believe; even Joe
Lieberman has conceded that.
Unemployment is steady at
5%, a more than respectable
rate. Free elections in
Afghanistan and Iraq will
stabilize traditionally volatile
areas. The Republicans have
gained the high ground in
terms of patriotism and
courage in the international
community. It is time for
leading Democrats to follow
Lieberman’s example. It is in
America’s interest to have
bipartisan support for freedom
and democracy.
Heritage Dictionary is “the
belief in the social, political,
and economic equality of the
sexes; the movement
organized around this belief”.
By declaring myself a
feminist, I am not stating that
women are better than men or
that women should militantly
demand specific rights. Some
feminists do believe that—
radical feminists, a select
group of feminists from the
1960’s American feminism
movement.
Feminism as a movement
is not a new concept, nor is it
finished. It reaches back to
Mary Shelley an Eng1ish
author in the 1760’s who wrote
about gender relations in
society. As a female
American, I consider myself
indebted to the first wave
feminist movement that
demanded women’s suffrage
and the right to own property
and money apart from her
closest male relative or
husband. More recently, US
feminism has dealt with issues
of civil rights, economic
gender equality, and sexuality.
Some of the current themes in
feminist thinking in the US are
based on objectification,
pornography and obscenity,
and oppression. The global
feminist movement has and is
moving on behalf of women in
poverty—acknowledging the
fact that women and children
(as children are often
considered part of women’s
issues) are often the first
victims of poverty and its
causes. There are movements
against female circumcision in
many lesser developed nations
alongside movements to
strengthen women’s economic
and political independence.
Feminism doesn’t belong
solely to Western universities
and departments teaching
gender/women’s studies. It is
often a vibrant grassroots
movement dealing with both
universal and culturally
specific issues.
Being a feminist, for me, does
not mean that I automatically
sign up for any particular set
of moral or political values
like with issue of abortion. It
means that I would like
women to be considered
equally in any number of
ways: within the Church,
within the home, politically,
economically, and sexually. I
do not intend to upset
traditional gender roles. If
anything, feminism should
give more freedom to women
and men by abolishing the
very fact that we are
prescribed to certain roles
based on our gender. Labeling
myself as a feminist means
that I care about issues relating
to women, many of which are
ignored or considered
finished. Rape, domestic
abuse, reproductive rights and
education, wages, job
availability, discrimination,
sexual harassment, objective
representation of women,
marital rights, motherhood,
sexuality, the ordination of
women, political
representation of women in
higher places and of women’s
issues all of these and more
fall under the umbrella of
women’s issues. I may not
agree with popular thought on
these topics, but I believe that
they deserve equal
consideration, education, and
discussion.
Come rock out before finals ruin your life!!!
A night with
The Sleeptights!!
The Hollywood Bar
Bryn Mawr and Spaulding (just north of NP
campus)
THIS FRIDAY
DECEMBER 9
Music starts @ 9pm
NO cover!!!
Come see the return of Brett Daniels and Aaron
Moon’s supergroup - , supported by two great,
non-North Park bands,
and Dave Sundquist with an acoustic solo set
F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s
V i e w p o i n t s
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compiled by Brad Luce
PARK PERSPECTIVE I’ve always had a bit of a
love for winter. I love the
crisp feel of the raw air on
my exposed skin and the icy
fingers running down my
back. It makes me feel alive.
But this winter is different
for me. This year the wind
carries something new. It’s the
realization that my friends are
sleeping outside in the snow.
The very same raw air that
reminds me I’m alive is an
omen of a long winter where
death often seems desirable for
those forced to live on the
streets.
On November 11, I was
apart of a group of five North
Park Students who got to
attend the National Student
Campaign Against Hunger and
Homelessness in Seattle,
Washington.
After three days of
workshops, lectures, and
discussions, I walked away
with much to think about.
Sifting through stacks of
lecture notes and mounds of
depressing statistics, I have
much to say. Be thankful for
this school. Talking to students
from around the country
opened my eyes to just how
thankful I am to be here. North
Park is committed to the
causes of justice, and not just
in slogans but with programs
and service opportunities. We
are a school that is looked up
to and imitated by others.
America is not a land of
equality. It never was. There
are four to six times more
animal shelters in America
than there are shelters for
homeless men, women, and
children. And so here I sit in
this warm room as my
thermometer reads 22 degrees
and continues to fall. This year
I’ve been a part of the Friday
Night Homeless Ministries.
I’ve spent hours learning from
the beautiful men and women
on the streets of this city. And
tonight they struggle to stay
warm.
This winter, I’m angry
when I walk outside. All I want
is a society where everyone
has a house, where everyone
has enough food and clothing,
where everyone can claim the
basics of life.
Some days I wake up and
know it’s going to be a bad
day. I look around and can’t
muster the courage to hope
that change is possible. When
I’m honest with myself, I
know that there is a dark
calloused heart within me that
loves comfort more than
justice. I see a church and a
whole society so divided over
issues that it won’t move on.
But the more I live with the
burden of this angry winter the
more I realize that I can’t go
on with the noose of cynicism
around my neck. I have to
believe that this world can
change and that we, North
Park, can have a hand in it.
I believe that change can
happen. I see that there are
Christians (and certainly not
just Christians) all over the
world that are fed up with
empty promises and lies. We
are done with debates limited
to gay marriage and abortion
while people are slaughtered
in genocide at our doorsteps.
We are sick of corporate
scandals when every six
seconds somebody in the
world dies of hunger.
I’m not simply pulling out
the new Christian cliché:
“Social Justice.” Rather, I
propose that we take a new
look at Jesus, the one who
flipped over tables and drove
men out of the temple with a
whip.
I want to know Jesus not
as a man that went home to a
nice house in the suburbs after
work but as the man who slept
in filth and dined with the
untouchables and the outcasts.
I want the God of change and
passionate, fervent love.
Finally, I believe that to seek
change is not an option
individually. I think I’m ready
to step out again, to pursue
more. I want to call God out
on His promise that He loves
the world. There is a group of
people ready to push into God
as one and demand that He
take action in this world. I
want to be a part of this. I want
to be one of these lovers. Will
you join us?
Will You Join Us?
Matt Enquist
Student Writer
What makes you want to scream? What makes you want to stand up and shout THIS
IS WRONG AND IT NEEDS TO STOP!!! There are issues in this world that need
to change and there are people in this world who can change them, but don’t.
Here at the North Park Press, each editor has specific issues that they want you to examine.
Here are a few.
- Why is it that we, America, are so quick to go to war in a country that could maybe
someday turn around and help us, but we don’t help Malawi, one of the ten poorest countries
in Africa where one in six people are living with HIV?
- Why is it that people accept the Left Behind series as Gospel?
- Why is it that so many couples decide they would rather inject themselves with fertility
drugs and risk dangerous multiple-children births than adopt children here in the US who are
living in foster care with no place to call home?
- Why is it that the American Education system is so bad? Why is it that kids are allowed
to just mimic and not really learn and how do they expect kids to survive in the world when
they aren’t able to teach students what they need to know in order to survive in it?
- Why is it that President Bush has decided to maintain the current troop levels in Iraq
when it is evident that Bush is staying because of a commitment he initially made?
- Why is it that in Texas high schools they continue to only teach abstinence (no birth
control or STD prevention methods) in their sex education classes even after the Texas
Department of Health presented the fact that the program has had little effect on teen sexual
behavior-meaning they are still having sex?
- Why is it that Christian media can’t do anything better than animate vegetables in order
to get their message across?
- Why do we immediately assume China is our enemy when we need to work with them?
So, what is it that you want to change?
What Do You Think?
Which NPU Sports team has been
the most fun to watch this semester?
“Definitely
Soccer...I could
stare at that mas-terful
mane all
day”
-Tim Lindstrom
“Volleyball
Girls...because
Dayle will Love it”
- Gabe Johnson
“Nasty Boys...so I
can have an excuse
to stare at Brian
Thompson”
- Ally Burns
“The Nasty Boys...I
could stare at that
masterful mane all
day” - Liz Jansen
“Mens Soccer...I
was their athletic
trainer”
-Alex Coleman
C a m p u s
4 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
Calendar of
Events
Friday, 9th
7:00pm-10:00pm
Kiva Coutre
8:00pm-1:00am
Christmas Dance
Saturday, 10th
4:00-7:00pm
Santa Lucia reception
12:00pm-2:00pm
MAP Presentation
8:30am-4:30pm
ACI College Readiness
Program
Sunday, 11th
10pm
College Life
1pm-5pm
Polish Open House
2pm to 4pm
Recital
Monday, 12th
10:30 am - 11:30 am
SA Meeting
5:30pm-6:45pm
Christmas Gathering for the
Family
Tuesday, 13th
Reading Day - No Classes
8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Facing History- Armenian
Genocide
10:00am to 4:00pm
Juries: Instrumental
5:00pm-7:00pm
UMIN Student Leaders
Christmas Party
5:00pm-6:30
NPD 1 Party
Wednesday, 14th
8:30 am- 12 pm
Axelson Center Scenario
Planning
10:00am to 4:00pm
Juries: Voice
Thursday, 15th
4:00pm-7:00pm
President Search Committee
Meeting
10:00am to 12:00pm
Juries: Piano
Meet Your Senators
Name: David Mara
Email:Dmara@northpark.edu
Year: Freshman
Major: International Business
Where do you live? Burgh
Hometown: Texas
If you could improve one
thing about North Park,
what would it be? There
would be a ping pong table
available to the students in
Burgh.
Name: Brian T. Ek
Email: bek@northpark.edu
Year: Sr.
Major: Biology
Where do you live? 3208 W.
Carmen Apt. #1 S.
Hometown: Maple Grove,
MN
Favorite part about being a
Student Senator: Knowing
what is going on around cam-pus
and helping students out
with problems that occur.
If you could improve one
thing about North Park,
what would it be? The rela-tion
between commuter stu-dents
and those students living
on campus
Anything you want students
to know about you? I enjoy
living at North Park and enjoy
all the friends that I have made
and look forward to the ones
that I will make this year,
mangas, Japanese comic
books, and movies. I also want
them to know that I would en-courage
all to find me out and
talk to me about SA issues..
...supportive in helping them
with the Fashion show.
Kofie explained the
show’s primary goal is to raise
money for the victims of hur-ricane
Katrina and Rita. This
is a good way for people who
wanted to help, but were un-sure
of how they could help. It
gives them a way to lend a
helping hand by coming to the
show and getting others to at-tend.
The fashion show will be
held in the lecture hall in
Carlson Tower at 7:30 pm un-til
9:00pm, tickets will be $3
dollars for students and $6 for
nonstudents. Refreshments
will be provided.
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Fashion Show
Senator Rauschenberger im-pressed
students with his very
personable nature, and well ar-ticulated
knowledge on a va-riety
of issues. He addressed
many topics ranging from
questions about himself and
why he is running for gover-nor
to specific plans for re-forming
our state government.
His main points were: educa-tional
reform, ensuring afford-able
healthcare, and jobs in the
state of Illinois.
Students who are inter-ested
in learning more about
Senator Rauschenberger can
visit his website at http://
www.votesteve2006.com.
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State Sen. Visit
on the details of the cases since
they are ongoing investiga-tions.
As for the number of se-curity
officers who patrol the
campus at any given time (two
officers), Tannehill feels
strongly that this is an “ad-equate”
number. “However,
being a police officer, I would
love to see an officer on every
corner, even though that’s im-possible.”
North Park security’s an-nual
budget is $200,000 for
security personnel. These se-curity
officers (forty-one in all)
are either current or former
Chicagoland law enforcement
officials, “who are all law pro-fessionals.”
Tannehill added
that, “They [campus security]
bring with them a wide vari-ety
of professionalism [offic-ers,
detectives, ect.] for when-ever
we need it.” As for the
level of cooperation with the
neighborhood police officials,
Tannehill added, “there is ex-cellent
communication and
support between us.”
Some students around
campus have been left with
somewhat of a different view
about their safety. Paul
Carlson was left rather frus-trated
after his car was stolen
from the Kedzie parking lot
back in September of this year.
Regardless of four separate
surveillance cameras watching
the lot, security was unable to
ascertain the identity of the
thief(s). “I asked security if I
could see the tapes from the
cameras,” said Carlson “and
the security officer told me,
‘even if I were to show you the
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tapes, you wouldn’t be able to
see what was going on because
the video quality was so
poor.’” There have been no
further leads on Carlson’s car.
In another incident, Lauri
Moser and her roommates
stopped a group of five -
would-be- burglars from walk-ing
into the basement of their
on-campus house, back in
early October. Even after re-porting
the incident to her RA,
Moser said, “We haven’t heard
anything back from the school
or campus security. It’s just
scary because there’s the pos-sibility
of someone getting into
our house. We’ve had other
problems since then and we’ve
had the same response when
reporting it,” added Moser.
Despite the safety mea-sures
that the security person-nel
stress upon all students, the
heightened number of security
incidents this year raises some
questions as to how well
equipped our campus security
is –in terms of funding and
available man power- in order
to keep the campus safe.
“Students/faculty are al-ways
urged to report suspi-cious
behavior and exercise
safety (i.e. dead-bolting apart-ment
doors),” Tannehill
stressed. However, maybe the
best thing one could do is press
the S.A. and the NPU board,
demanding more adequate
funding for our campus secu-rity
personnel.
North Park Security
enjoy one another’s films.
There will also be a judging
panel of faculty, staff, and stu-dents
who will judge the films
and give out awards based on
several categories.
Who came up with the idea
of having this type of activ-ity?
BS: It was my idea to try to
and put a festival like this to-gether.
What objectives do you have
for this festival?
BS: The objectives I have for
this film festival are simply for
many different groups of North
Park students to come together
and enjoy the films one an-other
have made and to give
people an outlet to be creative
and tell a story. My goal is that
this would not be a one year
event, but hopefully it would
continue every year for quite
some time.
Do other college do this type
of thing?
BS: I don’t really know if other
colleges do anything like this.
From the other colleges I do
know about there is nothing
like this going on.
What is the interest so far?
BS: Right now the interest is
low. I think this is due to lack
of good exposure and there is
really no “word of mouth” go-ing
around about it.
What information would you
like students to know about
this festival?
BS: The festival is an oppor-tunity
to come together with
friends, have fun telling a
story, and then later enjoy
watching other peoples films.
Applications and information
can be found on the UMIN
website of North Park and also
at the front desks of each of the
dorms.
NPU Film Festival
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O u t s i d e t h e B u b b l e
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Chicago Smoking Ban
The city of Chicago has
reached a tentative deal to
make nearly all public, indoor
facilities smoke-free
environments. This newly
struck deal gives bars up to
three years to comply with the
new ordinance, so as to usher
in the new law gradually. The
new law has support from the
Lung Association, the
American Cancer Society and
Chefs and Owners United for
Good Health (COUGH).
Strategy In Iraq
With the onslaught of Iraq
victory speeches by President
Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney these last few weeks,
Howard Dean (DNC
Chairman) spoke out about the
War in Iraq this week by
saying the idea that we can win
the war in Iraq is “just plain
wrong.” As usual, Dean has
been labeled unpatriotic and
unsupportive of our troops in
Iraq for his comments.
However, the White House has
yet to outline a clear strategy
for a successful pullout of
American forces on ground in
Iraq.
Beethoven’s New
Death
Researchers have discovered
new evidence which points to
conflicting thoughts about
how Ludwig van Beethoven
died. Bill Walsh has headed
up a team at the Department
of Energy laboratory in
Argonne, Ill. After closely
examining fragments of
Beethoven’s bones and hair
samples, the team has found
“higher-than-normal” levels of
lead. This new hypothesis, of
death due to lead poisoning, is
speculated to have come from
his drinking glasses (which
had a lead finishing) and/or
from a polluted water source.
Walsh and his team are
confident that this new
discovery closes the case on
how Beethoven died.
Ford Motor Company
Steers Clear of Gays
The Ford Motor Company has
recently decided to withdraw
its print advertising from “gay-oriented”
publications. This
new advertising decision
comes after the auto giant was
threatened by the conservative
American Family Association
who said that they would
otherwise boycott the
company. The American
Family Association stated that
the car manufacturer was
supporting an “immoral life-style.”
World News
At A Glance
Brad Luce
Section Editor
First formed in Cambridge, Mas-sachusetts
in 1980 by antinuclear
activists, Food Not Bombs is an
all volunteer organization dedi-cated
to nonviolence that shares
free vegetarian food with the
hungry. The group also protests
war and poverty throughout the
world and supports actions
against globalization of the
economy and the destruction of
the earth. With chapters all over
the world, each group recovers
food that would have otherwise
been thrown out and makes fresh,
hot, vegetarian meals to be
shared in city parks to anyone
without restriction.
The name Food Not Bombs
states the group’s fundamental
principle: That society needs
things that give life not things
that give death. Society is domi-nated
by violence and the threat
of violence and so Food Not
Bombs has chosen to take a stand
against such violence by commit-ting
to nonviolent social change
through the celebration and nur-turing
of life by giving out free
vegetarian food.
Believing that poverty is a form
of violence, Food Not Bombs
responds to the problem of pov-erty
by providing food to who-ever
wants it in an open respect-ful
way. The goal is not to make
the people served feel as if they
are being punished for being poor
and that the group is doing a
charitable act. Rather, the people
who partake of the food are in-vited
to be involved with the pro-cess
of providing the food them-selves.
This helps people to re-gain
a feeling of their own power
and their ability to change their
situation.
Food Not Bombs works hard to
prevent violence within each
community by ensuring that food
is never used as a weapon against
anyone. At demonstrations and
daily servings the concentration
is on serving food in a peaceful
and respectful manner, thereby
creating a safe environment for
people to eat in. It is a humane
response to poverty, a means of
empowering people and is eco-logically
safe.
Local FNB chapters:
Chicago
Stonesoup Co-op at 4637
Ashland in Chicago
Shares Saturdays’ at the corner
of Wilson and Sheridan
chicagofnb@hotmail.com
wcenter@wppost.depaul.edu
Chicago FNB website
Chicago FNB at Depaul
website
Humboldt/Logan FNB
Food Not Bombs
Lauren Braunshausen
HandsOn Mag. Writer
Cooks: Friday 3pm at the A-Zone
(2129 N. Milwaukee)
Serves: 5pm under the Western
Ave Blue Line stop
Needs: Some good sporks,
more volunteers to help with
prep! See also A-Zone Wish
List
Contact: hplfnb@beetfarm.org
Rogers Park FNB
Cooks: Wednesdays at 12:30 at
6608 North Newguard
Serves: 3-5pmish under the
Loyola Red Line stop
Needs: More northsiders to
help with food prep!
Contact:
mrhedges666@yahoo.com
DePaul FNB
Cooks: Sundays at 11am at
1022 W Belden Ave (At
Kenmore)
Serves: 1-3pm at Lincoln/
Fullerton/Halsted (or ‘til the
food is gone!)
Needs: More help all around.
Contact:
fnbchicago@hotmail.com
Logan Square
(773) 252-6911
Serves: Wednesday at 2:00 PM
under the eagle monument in
the Logan Square Park at the
corner of Kedzie Avenue and
Logan Boulevard.
We’d be glad for help with
gathering and cooking food and
for the company of anyone
who’d like a good meal
Contact:
foodnotbombs@rimpoche.chi.il.us
Uptown FNB
Cooks: Saturday 11am at Stone
Soup Co-op (4637 N. Ashland)
Serves: 1-3 pm at Clarendon
Park (Wilson and Clarendon)
Needs: To hang out with other
FNB groups more!
Contact: Erika
*If you are interested in
becoming a part of FNB please
make sure to contact someone
from the chapter you are
interested in before simply
showing up as many times,
arrangements change. An
extensive list of all FNB groups
as well as more information
about the movement can be
found at
www.foodnotbombs.net
“Would you like fries with that?
How about a super size?” These
two well recognized phrases are
commonly connected to fast food
restaurants and burger joints.
Countlessly reiterated and
mocked, these fast food one-liners
have come to be associated
with teenage obesity, and dead
end jobs, but what many people
do not realize is that fast food
chains affect the world’s view on
hunger. Especially in America,
we tend to value a better deal for
a dollar. A better deal often entails
more food for less cost. In doing
this, we tend to overindulge in
cheap, greasy meals.
Now, while many fast
food corporations have
cooperated greatly with waste
management productions and
make every effort to reduce trash
and other wastes from their daily
activities, they cannot control
what happens to the food once it
has left their restaurants. At this
point, the food becomes the
responsibility of the consumer
and, I am sad to report, this is
where the efforts end.
Unfortunately, most
consumers desire a surplus of
food, half of which is not needed.
The knowledge that they can
demand more leads many
Americans to over ordering and
“super sizing” their meal. Often
one of two things happens: either
the consumer eats the excess
food, eventually leading to
obesity (yet another problem in
today’s world, but one which we
will not explore in this essay) or
the disposal of any uneaten
morsels. It is this disposal that I
am aiming to examine. It is the
disposal of uneaten food that
demonstrates the American
attitude toward world hunger.
With so much food at our
fingertips, we tend to assume that
world hunger is a thing far, far
away from home. The reality is
that hunger affects our neighbor
just as much as it affects third
world countries.
According to
CareUSA.org currently “more
than 840 million people in the
world are malnourished — 799
million of them live in the
developing world.”However, this
does not need to be the case. The
same site says that every country
in the world “has the potential to
grow enough food” for their
inhabitants, unfortunately 54
nations cannot find the means or
resources to do so, nor can they
afford to import that which they
are lacking. This situation is
mostly caused by extreme
poverty but traumas such as
disasters, war and economic
disruptions can also lead to a
country’s hunger. Not that fast
food companies contribute to any
of these circumstances, but they
tend to warp the situation.
By allowing Americans
the opportunity to overindulge,
they also create a space in which
Americans can ignore the
growing problem of world
hunger. We callously toss away
our biggie fries and half our
hamburger with its four jumbo
patties while other people
scrounge around for a mere bite
to quench their hunger. Our sense
of a serving is so misconstrued
that the thought of a small meal
leaves us confused and greedy.
We are constantly remarking on
the “wonderfully” large portions
at restaurants, yet we often leave
our plate still full of food while
expanding our belts and
stretching our waistbands. All
this food could have been put to
better use in food shelters and
other such organizations. Many
Americans would be surprised to
find that a kid’s meal would serve
their purpose. Others would be
fine consuming a simple single
patty cheeseburger with a
medium soda and fries. We really
do not need to make everything
jumbo. Our overindulgence is
causing health problems, obesity
and is certainly not helping the
starving people in today’s world
to find food. Fast food chains
constantly drill into our heads
that bigger is better while leading
many Americans down the path
of gluttony.
If Americans could just
examine their daily intake, they
would realize that they digest far
more than appropriate. In our
nation, the mainstream crew
tends not to fear a lack of food at
the dinner table so they go the
extra mile to ensure that they
have more than enough to eat and
plenty left over to throw away.
This attitude greatly affects the
impact more Americans could
have on the world.
Kari Aley
HandsOn Mag. Writer
Fast Food America
Read these articles
and more in the next
issue of North Park’s
own Hand’s On
Magazine.
www.handsonmag.org
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6 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
Name: Santa Claus
Nicknames: Kris Kringle,
Jolly Old St. Nick, Father
Christmas
How old are you? Well
things are sort of timeless in
the North Pole. It has to do
with the temperature and with
the giant bubble of mirth that
envelops my workshop. Long
story short, I’ve been 62 for a
couple hundred years now.
Favorite food? I should
say cookies and milk but, hon-estly,
Santa can never pass up
a good strudel.
Worst job? Before I was
Santa, I worked the night shift
at Taco Bell. Boy do I have
stories (jolly laugh). Don’t bite
the hand that feeds you, if you
know what I mean.
Favorite album? Dark
Side of the Moon. Reminds me
of college. I hear if you play
it backwards, it…does some-thing.
Where are most likely to
find you? Hooters. For the
wings. The wings!!
What’s your favorite
movie portrayal of you? You
know, I can’t say. But I’d love
to see William Shatner give it
a try. I’m a big fan of his work.
Big fan.
Any parting words? I’m
real. I’m totally real.
Santa “The Crusher” Claus
Make The Season Bright
For That Special Someone
Tom Corley
NPU Student To the Boyfriends of
North Park Recently, I
was talking with my
friend Petey, when the topic of
Christmas presents came up in
conversation. Knowing Petey
has a girlfriend, I inquired as
to whether he had any ideas for
a gift for her. His reply was a
quiet and depressed “No”. He
then asked me if I had any
ideas to offer up to him. Now,
I am not saying that these ideas
are good, nor will every girl
appreciate them. I am simply
calling on my very limited ex-perience
to try and help out the
boyfriends of North Park. For
these gift ideas, I am taking
into consideration that, as col-lege
students, you all have a
limited budget, and not a
whole lot of time or patience
to shop.
Picturesque Evening -
This gift requires the help of a
friend, or family member.
Suggest to your fantastic fe-male
that you take her out for
a night on the town. Prior to
the night, purchase a cheap
picture frame and decorate it
to your liking. Then, at the
start of the evening,
nonchalantly have a picture
taken of you both. The rest of
the night is up to you; dinner,
a movie, a show, a play, etcet-era.
The crucial role will be
played by your friend or fam-ily
member. While you are
enjoying your night, have your
accomplice take the picture
taken and get a print, either at
a 60 minute photo, or take the
picture on a digital camera and
simply print it out on photo-graphic
paper. After they have
the print, they can slip it into
the frame and a box you al-ready
wrapped. They can then
leave the box in a mailbox, or
some other place you both
agree on. At the end of the
night, swing by and pick up
the box. Inside will be a
memory of your evening to-gether.
Compose a Song – Just
about every boy at this school
plays guitar, or some other in-strument.
Sit down, and seri-ously
try to write a song. It
doesn’t have to be something
great to anyone else; it should
simply portray how you feel
about your great gal. Record
the song and put it on a mix
CD with other, maybe some-what
better songs. This gift is
a bit cliché, I know. You can
download a program called
Audacity online, which is a
basic multi-tack recording pro-gram.
Or, if you have a Mac,
you can use Garage Band.
Most computers have an inter-nal
microphone you can use,
but if not an external one is
pretty cheap and can be found
at any office supply or elec-tronic
store.
Make Supper – If you
don’t already know, find out
the favorite meal of your queen
bee. Ask her to join you for a
dinner out, and tell her that the
restaurant is super classy.
When you pick her up, turn
around and drive right back to
your place. There, have her fa-vorite
food prepared along
with a set table. At the very
least, this makes for a nice sur-prise.
All of these ideas would
only be enhanced by including
something a bit more, let’s say,
expected. Something like a
sweater, a necklace, perfume,
you catch my drift. I think the
idea is to try and do something
a bit special for her this Christ-mas.
Come up with your own
ideas, because most of these
are a bit sappy anyways. Best
of luck, and Merry Christmas
everyone.
We spend so much
time each Christmas
season looking for
the perfect gift for our loved
ones. Why do we put so much
time and energy into this sea-son?
Why do we need to find
perfect gifts? The better the
gift or the more fitting it is for
that person or the more expen-sive
it is; what does this show
the receiver? Just that you
know them well, you are in
tune to what they want, and
you could afford it.
I already had an article
written for this week. My ar-ticle
wasn’t condemning the
materialism and commercial-ism
the Christmas season has
come to represent. I was try-ing
to explain that we try to
show people how much we
appreciate them through the
gifts we give. The person I
love the most, I get the best
present for. Now, I tell my
mom about all of my articles.
She usually likes them, but this
week was another story.
Now is the time when ev-eryone
says, “Remember the
reason for the season;” well, at
least the Christians do. My
mother abruptly stopped me in
my typing tracks to remind me.
Christmas isn’t about showing
people their worth through the
gifts you give them; big or
small. The gifts we give are
supposed to represent the
greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ.
This wasn’t the article I
meant to write, but it certainly
is one that needed to be writ-ten.
A Reminder
Jen Sayler
Pulse Co-Editor
From Jen’s Mom to you
10. Elf – A modern clas-sic.
Will Ferrell’s iconic goof
of a giant elf is too fun, funny,
and sweet not to love.
9. The Santa Claus(e) – All
I know is Tim Allen’s career
went straight down the toilet
once he got out of that fat suit.
8. The Grinch – A fun and
spirited adaptation of a holiday
classic.
7. Nightmare Before
Christmas – The ultimate in
alternative holiday entertain-ment.
Never mind that Jack
Skellington has become an
icon for alt culture. This fun
and frothy film holds up.
6. Love, Actually – Yeah,
it’s hokey. But it’s good hokey.
5. National Lampoon’s
Christmas Vacation – Remem-ber
when National Lampoon’s
was actually cool? Check out
the franchise before it went
direct-to-video and started
sucking.
4. A Charlie Brown Christ-mas
– “I didn’t know it was
such a bad little tree. It’s not
bad at all, really. Maybe all it
needs is a little love.”
3. Home Alone 1 and 2 –
Christmas cheer plus more hit-in-
the-groin gags than you can
shake a candy cane at.
2. A Christmas Story – The
film that made us all want to
go lick a lamppost.
1. It’s a Wonderful Life –
Remember how you could
barely stand to watch this
movie when you were little?
Watch it again. It’s better than
you remember.
Honorable Mentions:
White Christmas,
Rudolph, Die Hard, Frosty
The Snow Man, and Bad
Santa
Classic
Holiday
Movies
7
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F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s
1. Jingle Bells
2. Rockin’ Around the
Christmas
3. Silver Bells
4. O come, O Come
Emmanuel
5. The Christmas Song
(Chestnuts Roasting
on an Open Fire)
6. The Wassail Song
(Here We Come a
Caroling)
7. Silent Night
8. Grandma Got Run
Over by a Reindeer
9. Carol of the Bells
10. Hark the Herald
Angels
11. Joy to the World
12. Dance of the Sugar
Plum Fairy
13. Away in a Manger
14. The First Noel
15. Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer
Special
Holiday
Edition!
Travel Tips
Joe Giovannetti
Pulse Co-Editor
With so many NPUers
traveling in the com
ing weeks, we
thought it would be appropri-ate
to offer some tips and ideas
for the coming season of giv-ing
and traveling.
- Wear comfy clothes.
Whether on a plane, train, or
car, it always pays to be as
comfortable as possible.
- If you have a portable
music device, make sure it is
charged or that you have fresh
batteries before you leave. The
last thing you want is for it to
die with hours left to go.
- Of course, after finals,
reading may be the last thing
you want to do. But if you’re
still in the mood, don’t forget
to grab a book. Try John
Grisham’s Skipping Christmas
to put you in the holiday mood.
- If you’re on a plane or
a train, strike up a conversa-tion
with someone sitting near
you. Ask them where they’re
going and what they’re doing
for the holidays.
- If you’re driving,
force whoever is with you to
play license plate bingo.
- If you can, knit or cro-chet
as many scarves or hats
as you possibly can. Wrap
them up and kiss Christmas
shopping goodbye.
- Don’t forget to pack
extra underwear. You will al-ways
need extra underwear.
- Call your parents the
day before you leave just to tell
them how excited you are to
be coming home. It will make
their day.
- If you don’t have one,
remind your parents that trav-eling
would be a lot more fun
if you had an iPod.
http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk/
- Puzzles -
Jen Sayler
Pulse Co-Editor
Stuff To Do This
Weekend
500 Clown (sings)
Christmas Carol(s)
$10-15
Storefront Theatre,
66 E. Randolph
A Night with the
Sleeptights (and oth-ers)
The Sleeptights feature
North Park students
Aaron Moon and Brett
Daniels
No cover
The Hollywood Bar
Bryn Mawr and
Spaulding
Friday @ 9pm
On campus events:
Kiva Couture Fashion
Show (7pm)
Jingle Jangle Jam
(8pm-1am)
Santa Lucia Reception
Polar Express – An
IMAX 3D Experience
$12.50-14.50
Navy Pier
Check listings for times
10th Annual
Christkindlmarket Chi-cago
Daley Plaza 50
W.Washington St.
A German style bazaar
including homemade
glass ornaments and
wassail. Bring the
kids!
Friday – Saturday
11am to 9pm
Brian & Patrick’s Holi-day
Show
$8-10
Second City Skybox
1608 N. Wells St.
Friday @ 7:30pm
To Make Your Season Bright!
S p o r t s
8 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
Ramblings of the Week
North Park Athlete of
the Week
Brian Thompson
Sports Editor
CCIW Basketball
Standings
Greatest College
Athletes Continued
Brian Thompson
Sports Editor
Women:
Ill. Wesleyan 3-2
North Park 4-3
North Central 2-3
Carthage 2-3
Augustana 3-2
Milikin 3-0
Elmhurst 4-1
Wheaton 5-1
Men:
Ill. Wesleyan 5-0
Augustana 5-0
North Central 3-0
Milikin 4-1
Elmhurst 3-2
Wheaton 2-3
North Park 2-3
Carthage 1-5
Nathan Vasher has to be
named to the Pro Bowl.
There is no way that a
player who has had such a
spectacular impact this season
can be left on the sideline. Hear
me when I say this, best corner
on the Bears, best corner in the
NFC, and one of the best in the
NFL.
Despite the lack of black
coaches in the NFL, the top
three coaches are all black.
Tony Dungy has led the Colts
to an 11-0 start, while Lovie
Smith and Marvin Lewis have
the Bears and Bengals of two
9-3 starts.
This is going to be the last
time I say this before it
becomes fact. Reggie Bush
will win the Heisman trophy.
This year’s Rose Bowl
will be one of the best in recent
history when Texas plays USC.
The Bluejays definitely
believe in wasting their money.
They gave A.J. Burnett a 5
year, 55 million dollar contract
despite the fact he was 12-12,
including his last seven starts.
Before this, they signed B.J.
Ryan to the most lucrative deal
ever given to a reliever making
him the highest paid reliever.
Leon Powe is back. In his
first two games back he has
averaged 26.5 points per game
and 10 rebounds.
I hope Tony Dungy will
play his starters as the season
winds down. This team has a
chance to make history and
injury be damned these guys
should want to finally shut
those 1972 Dolphins up.
Wherever T.O. is, he is
smiling. The Eagles were
destroyed by the Seahawks
42-0. I mean I know I’ve been
a little hard on Owens, but
maybe it is time to swallow
some pride and bring him
back.
Isaiah Thomas is
determined to get Ruben
Patterson to the Knicks. My
only question is, why? Why
would you bring in the self
proclaimed “Kobe stopper” to
your already volatile mix of
players?
The most staggering
statistic I have seen in the
NBA is Chris Paul who is
almost averaging as many
rebounds as Eddy Curry. This
despite the fact that Curry is
almost a foot taller than Paul
and plays in a much weaker
conference.
And Now I present to you, my
list of the greatest athletes ever
to compete in the NCAA.
5. Barry Sanders, RB,
Oklahoma State: His 1988
season was arguably the finest
ever by a running back at the
college level. He rushed for
2,628 yards, and had over
3,400 all-purpose yards to go
along with 39 touchdowns. He
carried the ball 344 times
averaging 7.6 yards per carry.
4. Magic Johnson, G,
Michigan State: He put up
impressive numbers as a
freshman (17.0 ppg, 7.9 rpg,
7.4 apg), leading the Spartans
to a 25-5 record and the Big
Ten Conference title. As an
All-American sophomore
Johnson directed his team to
the national title in 1979,
beating Indiana State and
Larry Bird in perhaps the most
anticipated (and most
watched) NCAA
Championship Game ever
played.
3. Pistol Pete Maravich, G,
LSU: He shot early and often
and made a high enough
percentage to become college
basketball’s first and only
point-a-minute scorer. Playing
for his father, Press Maravich,
at Louisiana State University,
he scored 3,667 points in 83
games for an average of 44.2
a game over his three-year
career.
2. Ty Detmer, QB, BYU: A
two-time All-American
quarterback at Brigham Young
This week’s player of the week is senior guard Bjorn
Berg. In two Viking victories last week, it was Berg
who sealed the win both nights. He was also named
CCIW player of the week.
Photo by Karl Brorson
A Sit Down With... All Conference Senior Wide Receiver Sherman Gant.
During this past football
season, senior wide
receiver Sherman Gant
led the team in receiving yards
with 49 catches and 842 yards.
He was also amongst the
conference leaders in all-purpose
yards with 1101 yards
total and an average of 122.3
yards per game. I got a chance
to sit with the second team all
conference receiver to discuss
this past season among other
things.
Brian Thompson: How do
you train during the off-season?
Sherman Gant: Well I lift 5 to
6 days out the week, and
Tuesdays & Thursdays I work
on my sprints.
BT: How did it feel to be
named to the 2nd team all
conference?
SG: Being name 2nd team was
great. It makes you feel good
knowing that your one of the
studs in the conference.
BT: Did it mean more to you
that this honor came during
your senior year?
SG: It means a lot because I
was a two year starter prior
two this season and I just felt I
didn’t want to be just someone
who starts. I wanted to be an
all conference player.
BT: What is your favorite on
the field memory?
SG: Since this is about me, the
2004 season versus University
of Chicago I had a 60 yard
reverse for a touchdown. I
finished with 4 catches for 129
yards, 1 touchdown and 60
yards rushing. That was fun.
BT: Who do you model your
game after?
SG: Hines Ward. He’s one of
A Word from the
Editor:
Well, it’s been a good
year here for the North
Park Press. I would like
to take this time to thank
all the athletes and of
course the readers of the
sports section. Your
support and criticism are
needed/appreciated.
North Park guard Ed Whitaker drives to the lane in the
Vikings loss this past Tuesday.
Photo by Eric Staswick
the best and is underrated.
BT: What is the toughest
team you have played all
year? Who is the best player
(offense or defense) you’ve
played against?
SG: The toughest Augie, Best
offense player Kam Kniss of
North Central, best Defense
player Tom Anthony of
Augustana.
BT: Who do you feel is the
best athlete on the team (not
including yourself)?
SG: Raymond Decatur,
Ahkeem Waterford, and
Brandon Watts.
BT: Who do you feel will
make the biggest impact of
the returning players?
SG: Brandon Watts
University, in 1990 and 1991,
Detmer won the 1991
Heisman Trophy as a junior. In
four years as a starter, Detmer
completed 958 of 1,530 passes
for 15,031 yards and 121
touchdowns, with only 65
interceptions. He holds NCAA
career records for attempts,
completions, yards passing,
and touchdown passes.
1. Jim Brown, RB, Syracuse:
Today he is an activist, but
back in the day, he was the
baddest player in any sport. He
was bigger, faster and stronger
than anyone else with the
quickness to be considered one
of the greatest lacrosse players
to ever play and the power to
require several tacklers to
bring him down in football.
Before coming to SU, Brown
won letters in football
(averaging 14.9 yards per
carry), lacrosse, basketball
(averaging 38 points per
game), baseball and track and
was originally recruited to SU
for lacrosse.
Brian Thompson
Sports Editor

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North Park University’s Student Newspaper Volume 86, Issue 11 Friday, 9 December 2005
THIS ISSUE
North Park to Host Fashion Show Benefiting Katrina Victims
Karen Roberts
Press Writer
Fashion Show: A night of fashion and fun that will support the victims of Katrina.
North Park’s
First Annual
Film Festival
By Honna Eichler
Campus Editor
Defending Feminism ... 2
Democrats ................. 2
Will You Join Us?........ 3
NPU Film Festival. ...... 4
Food Not Bombs ........ 5
Fast Food America...... 5
Classic Holiday Movies 6
Travel Tips ................. 7
A Sit Down With......... 8
...continued on page 4
NPU Security Fights
Increase Of Campus Crime
State Senator
Steve
Rauschenberger
Visits NPU
By Brad Luce
Outside the Bubble Editor
SECURITY: Will this vehicle someday catch the infamous North Park Bandit(s)?
By Anders Rosenquist
Student
Photo By Anders Rosenquist
On Thursday, November
17, 2005 the North
Park College Republi-cans
hosted State Senator
Steve Rauschenberger for a
roundtable discussion. Sena-tor
Rauschenberger is cur-rently
one of several Republi-cans
seeking the primary
nomination for the Illinois gu-bernatorial
race.
Something refreshing,
fun, and different that
allows people to help
others and have a good time
as well,” said North Park
Student Krystal Kofie, the co-coordinator
of the Fashion
Show.
Kofie explained that her
and Dominique Covington,
the other coordinator of the
fashion show, were thinking of
ways that they could help
generate funds for the Katrina
victims. After some thought,
they decided that a fashion
show would be fun and
interesting experience that
they could bring to North Park,
and at the same time use
money from the tickets sales
to help Katrina and Rita
victims.
The fashion show does not
only include some of the latest
fashions, but also will have
other performances. They will
be performance between the
scenes of the fashion show
which include singing, poetry
and they will also be a step
group, the Zeta Phi Zeta
Phatenity.
“We have a mixture of
styles, because we wanted
stuff that everyone can relate
to, and enjoy,” said Kofie.
The clothes that are being
used in the fashion show are
being provided by generous
donations from stores in the
surrounding area, some of the
store owners will be present at
the show for those interested
in purchasing items.
The fashion show is
affiliated with BSA. Kofie
explained that the organization
has been very helpful and
...continued on page 4
North Park students and
faculty have experi
enced a rash of –some-times
brazen- thefts and bur-glaries
this semester. These
have ranged from petty thefts,
apartment break-ins, to a
professor’s office being van-dalized.
According to North Park’s
Director of Campus Security,
Harry Tannehill, a former
twenty-six year law enforce-ment
officer, the NPU campus
has been hit by “seven burglar-ies
thus far in the ’05 school
year.” This number is up a to-tal
of four from last year, while
“the number of thefts is up a
total of eight from last year.”
There is no apparent reason as
to why these numbers are up
so sharply, however security
personnel have reason to be-lieve
that a non North Parker(s)
might be “preying on the cam-pus,”
which would be a con-tributing
factor to the influx of
recent crime. This does not ex-clude
any possible culprits
within the NPU community,
however it would inflate those
numbers. It would be
extremely helpful, Tannehill
said, if all students wore school
ID’s, which would allow secu-rity
to differentiate between
NPU students and those whom
might pose a possible security
risk. Without some sort of vis-ible
school ID, spotting poten-tial
thieves “is very
difficult…you’re chasing
shadows,” described Tanne-hill.
As for the recent thefts,
Tannehill could not deliberate
In light of the upcoming
film festival, the NPU Press
decided to conduct an in-terview
with Ben Steel, the
creator of the event.
HE: What is the North
Park Film Festival?
Ben Steel: The North Park
Film Festival is an event for
students from all areas of
North Park to create films, tell
stories through a camera lens,
and then have all the students
come together to watch and
...continued on page 4
Photo By Brad Luce
...continued on page 4
V i e w p o i n t s
2 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
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North Park University, any North Park students or faculty, past or
present, or of the North Park Press.
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Sports Editor:
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Pulse Editors:
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Layout Editor:
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Outside the Bubble Editor:
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Writing Staff Supervisor:
Brad Luce
North Park Press Advisor:
Dave Wilson
Press Staff. Our mission as the North Park
Press is to be intentional about
the inclusion of all the voices
that makeup the North Park
University community. The
North Park Press is a publica-tion
that is actively seeking to
publish topics that are relevant
and meaningful to the student
body. We are striving to con-nect
the North Park community
to the world around us through
stories, forums, and prompts
that enable students to discuss
the hard questions of life.
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NP Press Mission Statement
I should begin by clarifying
my motivation in writing
this article. It is not written
in correlation with any of the
Scopebook articles. Instead
I’m writing out of frustration.
I consider myself a feminist.
Somehow by simply
acknowledging this I am
pigeonholed into a specific
stereotype; people censor their
speech around me or make
assumptions about feminism
and myself. I’d like to redeem
myself by explaining what I
believe it means to be a
feminist—and what feminism
does not necessarily mean. I
don’t consider myself any sort
of authority on it anymore than
by saying I am a Christian
necessitates the fact that I
represent Christianity.
A simple definition of
feminism from the American
A Look at Feminism
Tuesday, November 29,
Joseph Lieberman
issued a statement
saying, “Progress (in Iraq) is
visible and practical.”
Lieberman has visited Iraq
four times in the last 17
months. He cited numerous
facts illustrating the
overwhelming successes in
Iraq. He said that America is
fighting on the side of 27
million Iraqis who want
freedom. The other 10,000,
who fight against America, are
terrorists who oppose freedom
for Iraq. This statement, by
Lieberman, coincided with
speeches made by President
Bush that outlined the progress
being made in Iraq.
Lieberman agrees with the
majority of Americans who
want Iraq to be a success. In
stark contrast to Lieberman,
his prominent colleagues such
as John Kerry, Howard Dean,
and Hilary Clinton, are
committed to undermining the
American passion for freedom
and democracy.
John Kerry, in an
interview on the CBS show
Face the Nation, erupted into
anti-American rants. He
declared,
“And there is no reason,
Bob, that young American
soldiers need to be going into
the homes of Iraqis in the dead
of night, terrorizing kids and
children, you know, women,
breaking all sorts of the
customs of the—of—the
historical customs, religious
customs. Whether you like it
or not...Iraqis should be doing
that.”
John Kerry, in traditional
fashion, is portraying the
American military
establishment as the
antagonists and terrorists. I
sincerely hope he really
doesn’t believe that Iraqis
should be terrorizing their own
people. John Kerry is not the
only one making such
disturbing remarks to media
outlets. Howard Dean on a
radio show also proclaimed
this encouragement, “the idea
that we’re going to win the war
in Iraq is an idea which is just
plain wrong.” Howard Dean
has been known to make
Ruth Johnson
Student Writer
Prominent Democrats Disgrace America...Again
Tyler Gaastra
Student Writer
enthusiastic rants, so this kind
of chatter should not catch too
many people off guard.
Howard Dean is an
irresponsible politician who
has compromised America’s
image many times, very
similar to Jimmy Carter’s
dinners with despots, since his
failed attempt for the
Presidency. The last
disgraceful politician is Hilary
Clinton. She seemingly
supports the war effort
depending on the public
opinion polls. Her position
has changed so many times,
that in order to stay current I
have installed an automatic
pop-up on my computer to
inform me of her position
every hour on the hour.
The fact remains, that the
Democrats are desperate. The
status in Iraq is not nearly as
bleak as they want the public
to believe; even Joe
Lieberman has conceded that.
Unemployment is steady at
5%, a more than respectable
rate. Free elections in
Afghanistan and Iraq will
stabilize traditionally volatile
areas. The Republicans have
gained the high ground in
terms of patriotism and
courage in the international
community. It is time for
leading Democrats to follow
Lieberman’s example. It is in
America’s interest to have
bipartisan support for freedom
and democracy.
Heritage Dictionary is “the
belief in the social, political,
and economic equality of the
sexes; the movement
organized around this belief”.
By declaring myself a
feminist, I am not stating that
women are better than men or
that women should militantly
demand specific rights. Some
feminists do believe that—
radical feminists, a select
group of feminists from the
1960’s American feminism
movement.
Feminism as a movement
is not a new concept, nor is it
finished. It reaches back to
Mary Shelley an Eng1ish
author in the 1760’s who wrote
about gender relations in
society. As a female
American, I consider myself
indebted to the first wave
feminist movement that
demanded women’s suffrage
and the right to own property
and money apart from her
closest male relative or
husband. More recently, US
feminism has dealt with issues
of civil rights, economic
gender equality, and sexuality.
Some of the current themes in
feminist thinking in the US are
based on objectification,
pornography and obscenity,
and oppression. The global
feminist movement has and is
moving on behalf of women in
poverty—acknowledging the
fact that women and children
(as children are often
considered part of women’s
issues) are often the first
victims of poverty and its
causes. There are movements
against female circumcision in
many lesser developed nations
alongside movements to
strengthen women’s economic
and political independence.
Feminism doesn’t belong
solely to Western universities
and departments teaching
gender/women’s studies. It is
often a vibrant grassroots
movement dealing with both
universal and culturally
specific issues.
Being a feminist, for me, does
not mean that I automatically
sign up for any particular set
of moral or political values
like with issue of abortion. It
means that I would like
women to be considered
equally in any number of
ways: within the Church,
within the home, politically,
economically, and sexually. I
do not intend to upset
traditional gender roles. If
anything, feminism should
give more freedom to women
and men by abolishing the
very fact that we are
prescribed to certain roles
based on our gender. Labeling
myself as a feminist means
that I care about issues relating
to women, many of which are
ignored or considered
finished. Rape, domestic
abuse, reproductive rights and
education, wages, job
availability, discrimination,
sexual harassment, objective
representation of women,
marital rights, motherhood,
sexuality, the ordination of
women, political
representation of women in
higher places and of women’s
issues all of these and more
fall under the umbrella of
women’s issues. I may not
agree with popular thought on
these topics, but I believe that
they deserve equal
consideration, education, and
discussion.
Come rock out before finals ruin your life!!!
A night with
The Sleeptights!!
The Hollywood Bar
Bryn Mawr and Spaulding (just north of NP
campus)
THIS FRIDAY
DECEMBER 9
Music starts @ 9pm
NO cover!!!
Come see the return of Brett Daniels and Aaron
Moon’s supergroup - , supported by two great,
non-North Park bands,
and Dave Sundquist with an acoustic solo set
F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s
V i e w p o i n t s
3
compiled by Brad Luce
PARK PERSPECTIVE I’ve always had a bit of a
love for winter. I love the
crisp feel of the raw air on
my exposed skin and the icy
fingers running down my
back. It makes me feel alive.
But this winter is different
for me. This year the wind
carries something new. It’s the
realization that my friends are
sleeping outside in the snow.
The very same raw air that
reminds me I’m alive is an
omen of a long winter where
death often seems desirable for
those forced to live on the
streets.
On November 11, I was
apart of a group of five North
Park Students who got to
attend the National Student
Campaign Against Hunger and
Homelessness in Seattle,
Washington.
After three days of
workshops, lectures, and
discussions, I walked away
with much to think about.
Sifting through stacks of
lecture notes and mounds of
depressing statistics, I have
much to say. Be thankful for
this school. Talking to students
from around the country
opened my eyes to just how
thankful I am to be here. North
Park is committed to the
causes of justice, and not just
in slogans but with programs
and service opportunities. We
are a school that is looked up
to and imitated by others.
America is not a land of
equality. It never was. There
are four to six times more
animal shelters in America
than there are shelters for
homeless men, women, and
children. And so here I sit in
this warm room as my
thermometer reads 22 degrees
and continues to fall. This year
I’ve been a part of the Friday
Night Homeless Ministries.
I’ve spent hours learning from
the beautiful men and women
on the streets of this city. And
tonight they struggle to stay
warm.
This winter, I’m angry
when I walk outside. All I want
is a society where everyone
has a house, where everyone
has enough food and clothing,
where everyone can claim the
basics of life.
Some days I wake up and
know it’s going to be a bad
day. I look around and can’t
muster the courage to hope
that change is possible. When
I’m honest with myself, I
know that there is a dark
calloused heart within me that
loves comfort more than
justice. I see a church and a
whole society so divided over
issues that it won’t move on.
But the more I live with the
burden of this angry winter the
more I realize that I can’t go
on with the noose of cynicism
around my neck. I have to
believe that this world can
change and that we, North
Park, can have a hand in it.
I believe that change can
happen. I see that there are
Christians (and certainly not
just Christians) all over the
world that are fed up with
empty promises and lies. We
are done with debates limited
to gay marriage and abortion
while people are slaughtered
in genocide at our doorsteps.
We are sick of corporate
scandals when every six
seconds somebody in the
world dies of hunger.
I’m not simply pulling out
the new Christian cliché:
“Social Justice.” Rather, I
propose that we take a new
look at Jesus, the one who
flipped over tables and drove
men out of the temple with a
whip.
I want to know Jesus not
as a man that went home to a
nice house in the suburbs after
work but as the man who slept
in filth and dined with the
untouchables and the outcasts.
I want the God of change and
passionate, fervent love.
Finally, I believe that to seek
change is not an option
individually. I think I’m ready
to step out again, to pursue
more. I want to call God out
on His promise that He loves
the world. There is a group of
people ready to push into God
as one and demand that He
take action in this world. I
want to be a part of this. I want
to be one of these lovers. Will
you join us?
Will You Join Us?
Matt Enquist
Student Writer
What makes you want to scream? What makes you want to stand up and shout THIS
IS WRONG AND IT NEEDS TO STOP!!! There are issues in this world that need
to change and there are people in this world who can change them, but don’t.
Here at the North Park Press, each editor has specific issues that they want you to examine.
Here are a few.
- Why is it that we, America, are so quick to go to war in a country that could maybe
someday turn around and help us, but we don’t help Malawi, one of the ten poorest countries
in Africa where one in six people are living with HIV?
- Why is it that people accept the Left Behind series as Gospel?
- Why is it that so many couples decide they would rather inject themselves with fertility
drugs and risk dangerous multiple-children births than adopt children here in the US who are
living in foster care with no place to call home?
- Why is it that the American Education system is so bad? Why is it that kids are allowed
to just mimic and not really learn and how do they expect kids to survive in the world when
they aren’t able to teach students what they need to know in order to survive in it?
- Why is it that President Bush has decided to maintain the current troop levels in Iraq
when it is evident that Bush is staying because of a commitment he initially made?
- Why is it that in Texas high schools they continue to only teach abstinence (no birth
control or STD prevention methods) in their sex education classes even after the Texas
Department of Health presented the fact that the program has had little effect on teen sexual
behavior-meaning they are still having sex?
- Why is it that Christian media can’t do anything better than animate vegetables in order
to get their message across?
- Why do we immediately assume China is our enemy when we need to work with them?
So, what is it that you want to change?
What Do You Think?
Which NPU Sports team has been
the most fun to watch this semester?
“Definitely
Soccer...I could
stare at that mas-terful
mane all
day”
-Tim Lindstrom
“Volleyball
Girls...because
Dayle will Love it”
- Gabe Johnson
“Nasty Boys...so I
can have an excuse
to stare at Brian
Thompson”
- Ally Burns
“The Nasty Boys...I
could stare at that
masterful mane all
day” - Liz Jansen
“Mens Soccer...I
was their athletic
trainer”
-Alex Coleman
C a m p u s
4 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
Calendar of
Events
Friday, 9th
7:00pm-10:00pm
Kiva Coutre
8:00pm-1:00am
Christmas Dance
Saturday, 10th
4:00-7:00pm
Santa Lucia reception
12:00pm-2:00pm
MAP Presentation
8:30am-4:30pm
ACI College Readiness
Program
Sunday, 11th
10pm
College Life
1pm-5pm
Polish Open House
2pm to 4pm
Recital
Monday, 12th
10:30 am - 11:30 am
SA Meeting
5:30pm-6:45pm
Christmas Gathering for the
Family
Tuesday, 13th
Reading Day - No Classes
8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Facing History- Armenian
Genocide
10:00am to 4:00pm
Juries: Instrumental
5:00pm-7:00pm
UMIN Student Leaders
Christmas Party
5:00pm-6:30
NPD 1 Party
Wednesday, 14th
8:30 am- 12 pm
Axelson Center Scenario
Planning
10:00am to 4:00pm
Juries: Voice
Thursday, 15th
4:00pm-7:00pm
President Search Committee
Meeting
10:00am to 12:00pm
Juries: Piano
Meet Your Senators
Name: David Mara
Email:Dmara@northpark.edu
Year: Freshman
Major: International Business
Where do you live? Burgh
Hometown: Texas
If you could improve one
thing about North Park,
what would it be? There
would be a ping pong table
available to the students in
Burgh.
Name: Brian T. Ek
Email: bek@northpark.edu
Year: Sr.
Major: Biology
Where do you live? 3208 W.
Carmen Apt. #1 S.
Hometown: Maple Grove,
MN
Favorite part about being a
Student Senator: Knowing
what is going on around cam-pus
and helping students out
with problems that occur.
If you could improve one
thing about North Park,
what would it be? The rela-tion
between commuter stu-dents
and those students living
on campus
Anything you want students
to know about you? I enjoy
living at North Park and enjoy
all the friends that I have made
and look forward to the ones
that I will make this year,
mangas, Japanese comic
books, and movies. I also want
them to know that I would en-courage
all to find me out and
talk to me about SA issues..
...supportive in helping them
with the Fashion show.
Kofie explained the
show’s primary goal is to raise
money for the victims of hur-ricane
Katrina and Rita. This
is a good way for people who
wanted to help, but were un-sure
of how they could help. It
gives them a way to lend a
helping hand by coming to the
show and getting others to at-tend.
The fashion show will be
held in the lecture hall in
Carlson Tower at 7:30 pm un-til
9:00pm, tickets will be $3
dollars for students and $6 for
nonstudents. Refreshments
will be provided.
continued from page 1 . . .
Fashion Show
Senator Rauschenberger im-pressed
students with his very
personable nature, and well ar-ticulated
knowledge on a va-riety
of issues. He addressed
many topics ranging from
questions about himself and
why he is running for gover-nor
to specific plans for re-forming
our state government.
His main points were: educa-tional
reform, ensuring afford-able
healthcare, and jobs in the
state of Illinois.
Students who are inter-ested
in learning more about
Senator Rauschenberger can
visit his website at http://
www.votesteve2006.com.
continued from page 1 . . .
State Sen. Visit
on the details of the cases since
they are ongoing investiga-tions.
As for the number of se-curity
officers who patrol the
campus at any given time (two
officers), Tannehill feels
strongly that this is an “ad-equate”
number. “However,
being a police officer, I would
love to see an officer on every
corner, even though that’s im-possible.”
North Park security’s an-nual
budget is $200,000 for
security personnel. These se-curity
officers (forty-one in all)
are either current or former
Chicagoland law enforcement
officials, “who are all law pro-fessionals.”
Tannehill added
that, “They [campus security]
bring with them a wide vari-ety
of professionalism [offic-ers,
detectives, ect.] for when-ever
we need it.” As for the
level of cooperation with the
neighborhood police officials,
Tannehill added, “there is ex-cellent
communication and
support between us.”
Some students around
campus have been left with
somewhat of a different view
about their safety. Paul
Carlson was left rather frus-trated
after his car was stolen
from the Kedzie parking lot
back in September of this year.
Regardless of four separate
surveillance cameras watching
the lot, security was unable to
ascertain the identity of the
thief(s). “I asked security if I
could see the tapes from the
cameras,” said Carlson “and
the security officer told me,
‘even if I were to show you the
continued from page 1 . . .
tapes, you wouldn’t be able to
see what was going on because
the video quality was so
poor.’” There have been no
further leads on Carlson’s car.
In another incident, Lauri
Moser and her roommates
stopped a group of five -
would-be- burglars from walk-ing
into the basement of their
on-campus house, back in
early October. Even after re-porting
the incident to her RA,
Moser said, “We haven’t heard
anything back from the school
or campus security. It’s just
scary because there’s the pos-sibility
of someone getting into
our house. We’ve had other
problems since then and we’ve
had the same response when
reporting it,” added Moser.
Despite the safety mea-sures
that the security person-nel
stress upon all students, the
heightened number of security
incidents this year raises some
questions as to how well
equipped our campus security
is –in terms of funding and
available man power- in order
to keep the campus safe.
“Students/faculty are al-ways
urged to report suspi-cious
behavior and exercise
safety (i.e. dead-bolting apart-ment
doors),” Tannehill
stressed. However, maybe the
best thing one could do is press
the S.A. and the NPU board,
demanding more adequate
funding for our campus secu-rity
personnel.
North Park Security
enjoy one another’s films.
There will also be a judging
panel of faculty, staff, and stu-dents
who will judge the films
and give out awards based on
several categories.
Who came up with the idea
of having this type of activ-ity?
BS: It was my idea to try to
and put a festival like this to-gether.
What objectives do you have
for this festival?
BS: The objectives I have for
this film festival are simply for
many different groups of North
Park students to come together
and enjoy the films one an-other
have made and to give
people an outlet to be creative
and tell a story. My goal is that
this would not be a one year
event, but hopefully it would
continue every year for quite
some time.
Do other college do this type
of thing?
BS: I don’t really know if other
colleges do anything like this.
From the other colleges I do
know about there is nothing
like this going on.
What is the interest so far?
BS: Right now the interest is
low. I think this is due to lack
of good exposure and there is
really no “word of mouth” go-ing
around about it.
What information would you
like students to know about
this festival?
BS: The festival is an oppor-tunity
to come together with
friends, have fun telling a
story, and then later enjoy
watching other peoples films.
Applications and information
can be found on the UMIN
website of North Park and also
at the front desks of each of the
dorms.
NPU Film Festival
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Chicago Smoking Ban
The city of Chicago has
reached a tentative deal to
make nearly all public, indoor
facilities smoke-free
environments. This newly
struck deal gives bars up to
three years to comply with the
new ordinance, so as to usher
in the new law gradually. The
new law has support from the
Lung Association, the
American Cancer Society and
Chefs and Owners United for
Good Health (COUGH).
Strategy In Iraq
With the onslaught of Iraq
victory speeches by President
Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney these last few weeks,
Howard Dean (DNC
Chairman) spoke out about the
War in Iraq this week by
saying the idea that we can win
the war in Iraq is “just plain
wrong.” As usual, Dean has
been labeled unpatriotic and
unsupportive of our troops in
Iraq for his comments.
However, the White House has
yet to outline a clear strategy
for a successful pullout of
American forces on ground in
Iraq.
Beethoven’s New
Death
Researchers have discovered
new evidence which points to
conflicting thoughts about
how Ludwig van Beethoven
died. Bill Walsh has headed
up a team at the Department
of Energy laboratory in
Argonne, Ill. After closely
examining fragments of
Beethoven’s bones and hair
samples, the team has found
“higher-than-normal” levels of
lead. This new hypothesis, of
death due to lead poisoning, is
speculated to have come from
his drinking glasses (which
had a lead finishing) and/or
from a polluted water source.
Walsh and his team are
confident that this new
discovery closes the case on
how Beethoven died.
Ford Motor Company
Steers Clear of Gays
The Ford Motor Company has
recently decided to withdraw
its print advertising from “gay-oriented”
publications. This
new advertising decision
comes after the auto giant was
threatened by the conservative
American Family Association
who said that they would
otherwise boycott the
company. The American
Family Association stated that
the car manufacturer was
supporting an “immoral life-style.”
World News
At A Glance
Brad Luce
Section Editor
First formed in Cambridge, Mas-sachusetts
in 1980 by antinuclear
activists, Food Not Bombs is an
all volunteer organization dedi-cated
to nonviolence that shares
free vegetarian food with the
hungry. The group also protests
war and poverty throughout the
world and supports actions
against globalization of the
economy and the destruction of
the earth. With chapters all over
the world, each group recovers
food that would have otherwise
been thrown out and makes fresh,
hot, vegetarian meals to be
shared in city parks to anyone
without restriction.
The name Food Not Bombs
states the group’s fundamental
principle: That society needs
things that give life not things
that give death. Society is domi-nated
by violence and the threat
of violence and so Food Not
Bombs has chosen to take a stand
against such violence by commit-ting
to nonviolent social change
through the celebration and nur-turing
of life by giving out free
vegetarian food.
Believing that poverty is a form
of violence, Food Not Bombs
responds to the problem of pov-erty
by providing food to who-ever
wants it in an open respect-ful
way. The goal is not to make
the people served feel as if they
are being punished for being poor
and that the group is doing a
charitable act. Rather, the people
who partake of the food are in-vited
to be involved with the pro-cess
of providing the food them-selves.
This helps people to re-gain
a feeling of their own power
and their ability to change their
situation.
Food Not Bombs works hard to
prevent violence within each
community by ensuring that food
is never used as a weapon against
anyone. At demonstrations and
daily servings the concentration
is on serving food in a peaceful
and respectful manner, thereby
creating a safe environment for
people to eat in. It is a humane
response to poverty, a means of
empowering people and is eco-logically
safe.
Local FNB chapters:
Chicago
Stonesoup Co-op at 4637
Ashland in Chicago
Shares Saturdays’ at the corner
of Wilson and Sheridan
chicagofnb@hotmail.com
wcenter@wppost.depaul.edu
Chicago FNB website
Chicago FNB at Depaul
website
Humboldt/Logan FNB
Food Not Bombs
Lauren Braunshausen
HandsOn Mag. Writer
Cooks: Friday 3pm at the A-Zone
(2129 N. Milwaukee)
Serves: 5pm under the Western
Ave Blue Line stop
Needs: Some good sporks,
more volunteers to help with
prep! See also A-Zone Wish
List
Contact: hplfnb@beetfarm.org
Rogers Park FNB
Cooks: Wednesdays at 12:30 at
6608 North Newguard
Serves: 3-5pmish under the
Loyola Red Line stop
Needs: More northsiders to
help with food prep!
Contact:
mrhedges666@yahoo.com
DePaul FNB
Cooks: Sundays at 11am at
1022 W Belden Ave (At
Kenmore)
Serves: 1-3pm at Lincoln/
Fullerton/Halsted (or ‘til the
food is gone!)
Needs: More help all around.
Contact:
fnbchicago@hotmail.com
Logan Square
(773) 252-6911
Serves: Wednesday at 2:00 PM
under the eagle monument in
the Logan Square Park at the
corner of Kedzie Avenue and
Logan Boulevard.
We’d be glad for help with
gathering and cooking food and
for the company of anyone
who’d like a good meal
Contact:
foodnotbombs@rimpoche.chi.il.us
Uptown FNB
Cooks: Saturday 11am at Stone
Soup Co-op (4637 N. Ashland)
Serves: 1-3 pm at Clarendon
Park (Wilson and Clarendon)
Needs: To hang out with other
FNB groups more!
Contact: Erika
*If you are interested in
becoming a part of FNB please
make sure to contact someone
from the chapter you are
interested in before simply
showing up as many times,
arrangements change. An
extensive list of all FNB groups
as well as more information
about the movement can be
found at
www.foodnotbombs.net
“Would you like fries with that?
How about a super size?” These
two well recognized phrases are
commonly connected to fast food
restaurants and burger joints.
Countlessly reiterated and
mocked, these fast food one-liners
have come to be associated
with teenage obesity, and dead
end jobs, but what many people
do not realize is that fast food
chains affect the world’s view on
hunger. Especially in America,
we tend to value a better deal for
a dollar. A better deal often entails
more food for less cost. In doing
this, we tend to overindulge in
cheap, greasy meals.
Now, while many fast
food corporations have
cooperated greatly with waste
management productions and
make every effort to reduce trash
and other wastes from their daily
activities, they cannot control
what happens to the food once it
has left their restaurants. At this
point, the food becomes the
responsibility of the consumer
and, I am sad to report, this is
where the efforts end.
Unfortunately, most
consumers desire a surplus of
food, half of which is not needed.
The knowledge that they can
demand more leads many
Americans to over ordering and
“super sizing” their meal. Often
one of two things happens: either
the consumer eats the excess
food, eventually leading to
obesity (yet another problem in
today’s world, but one which we
will not explore in this essay) or
the disposal of any uneaten
morsels. It is this disposal that I
am aiming to examine. It is the
disposal of uneaten food that
demonstrates the American
attitude toward world hunger.
With so much food at our
fingertips, we tend to assume that
world hunger is a thing far, far
away from home. The reality is
that hunger affects our neighbor
just as much as it affects third
world countries.
According to
CareUSA.org currently “more
than 840 million people in the
world are malnourished — 799
million of them live in the
developing world.”However, this
does not need to be the case. The
same site says that every country
in the world “has the potential to
grow enough food” for their
inhabitants, unfortunately 54
nations cannot find the means or
resources to do so, nor can they
afford to import that which they
are lacking. This situation is
mostly caused by extreme
poverty but traumas such as
disasters, war and economic
disruptions can also lead to a
country’s hunger. Not that fast
food companies contribute to any
of these circumstances, but they
tend to warp the situation.
By allowing Americans
the opportunity to overindulge,
they also create a space in which
Americans can ignore the
growing problem of world
hunger. We callously toss away
our biggie fries and half our
hamburger with its four jumbo
patties while other people
scrounge around for a mere bite
to quench their hunger. Our sense
of a serving is so misconstrued
that the thought of a small meal
leaves us confused and greedy.
We are constantly remarking on
the “wonderfully” large portions
at restaurants, yet we often leave
our plate still full of food while
expanding our belts and
stretching our waistbands. All
this food could have been put to
better use in food shelters and
other such organizations. Many
Americans would be surprised to
find that a kid’s meal would serve
their purpose. Others would be
fine consuming a simple single
patty cheeseburger with a
medium soda and fries. We really
do not need to make everything
jumbo. Our overindulgence is
causing health problems, obesity
and is certainly not helping the
starving people in today’s world
to find food. Fast food chains
constantly drill into our heads
that bigger is better while leading
many Americans down the path
of gluttony.
If Americans could just
examine their daily intake, they
would realize that they digest far
more than appropriate. In our
nation, the mainstream crew
tends not to fear a lack of food at
the dinner table so they go the
extra mile to ensure that they
have more than enough to eat and
plenty left over to throw away.
This attitude greatly affects the
impact more Americans could
have on the world.
Kari Aley
HandsOn Mag. Writer
Fast Food America
Read these articles
and more in the next
issue of North Park’s
own Hand’s On
Magazine.
www.handsonmag.org
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Name: Santa Claus
Nicknames: Kris Kringle,
Jolly Old St. Nick, Father
Christmas
How old are you? Well
things are sort of timeless in
the North Pole. It has to do
with the temperature and with
the giant bubble of mirth that
envelops my workshop. Long
story short, I’ve been 62 for a
couple hundred years now.
Favorite food? I should
say cookies and milk but, hon-estly,
Santa can never pass up
a good strudel.
Worst job? Before I was
Santa, I worked the night shift
at Taco Bell. Boy do I have
stories (jolly laugh). Don’t bite
the hand that feeds you, if you
know what I mean.
Favorite album? Dark
Side of the Moon. Reminds me
of college. I hear if you play
it backwards, it…does some-thing.
Where are most likely to
find you? Hooters. For the
wings. The wings!!
What’s your favorite
movie portrayal of you? You
know, I can’t say. But I’d love
to see William Shatner give it
a try. I’m a big fan of his work.
Big fan.
Any parting words? I’m
real. I’m totally real.
Santa “The Crusher” Claus
Make The Season Bright
For That Special Someone
Tom Corley
NPU Student To the Boyfriends of
North Park Recently, I
was talking with my
friend Petey, when the topic of
Christmas presents came up in
conversation. Knowing Petey
has a girlfriend, I inquired as
to whether he had any ideas for
a gift for her. His reply was a
quiet and depressed “No”. He
then asked me if I had any
ideas to offer up to him. Now,
I am not saying that these ideas
are good, nor will every girl
appreciate them. I am simply
calling on my very limited ex-perience
to try and help out the
boyfriends of North Park. For
these gift ideas, I am taking
into consideration that, as col-lege
students, you all have a
limited budget, and not a
whole lot of time or patience
to shop.
Picturesque Evening -
This gift requires the help of a
friend, or family member.
Suggest to your fantastic fe-male
that you take her out for
a night on the town. Prior to
the night, purchase a cheap
picture frame and decorate it
to your liking. Then, at the
start of the evening,
nonchalantly have a picture
taken of you both. The rest of
the night is up to you; dinner,
a movie, a show, a play, etcet-era.
The crucial role will be
played by your friend or fam-ily
member. While you are
enjoying your night, have your
accomplice take the picture
taken and get a print, either at
a 60 minute photo, or take the
picture on a digital camera and
simply print it out on photo-graphic
paper. After they have
the print, they can slip it into
the frame and a box you al-ready
wrapped. They can then
leave the box in a mailbox, or
some other place you both
agree on. At the end of the
night, swing by and pick up
the box. Inside will be a
memory of your evening to-gether.
Compose a Song – Just
about every boy at this school
plays guitar, or some other in-strument.
Sit down, and seri-ously
try to write a song. It
doesn’t have to be something
great to anyone else; it should
simply portray how you feel
about your great gal. Record
the song and put it on a mix
CD with other, maybe some-what
better songs. This gift is
a bit cliché, I know. You can
download a program called
Audacity online, which is a
basic multi-tack recording pro-gram.
Or, if you have a Mac,
you can use Garage Band.
Most computers have an inter-nal
microphone you can use,
but if not an external one is
pretty cheap and can be found
at any office supply or elec-tronic
store.
Make Supper – If you
don’t already know, find out
the favorite meal of your queen
bee. Ask her to join you for a
dinner out, and tell her that the
restaurant is super classy.
When you pick her up, turn
around and drive right back to
your place. There, have her fa-vorite
food prepared along
with a set table. At the very
least, this makes for a nice sur-prise.
All of these ideas would
only be enhanced by including
something a bit more, let’s say,
expected. Something like a
sweater, a necklace, perfume,
you catch my drift. I think the
idea is to try and do something
a bit special for her this Christ-mas.
Come up with your own
ideas, because most of these
are a bit sappy anyways. Best
of luck, and Merry Christmas
everyone.
We spend so much
time each Christmas
season looking for
the perfect gift for our loved
ones. Why do we put so much
time and energy into this sea-son?
Why do we need to find
perfect gifts? The better the
gift or the more fitting it is for
that person or the more expen-sive
it is; what does this show
the receiver? Just that you
know them well, you are in
tune to what they want, and
you could afford it.
I already had an article
written for this week. My ar-ticle
wasn’t condemning the
materialism and commercial-ism
the Christmas season has
come to represent. I was try-ing
to explain that we try to
show people how much we
appreciate them through the
gifts we give. The person I
love the most, I get the best
present for. Now, I tell my
mom about all of my articles.
She usually likes them, but this
week was another story.
Now is the time when ev-eryone
says, “Remember the
reason for the season;” well, at
least the Christians do. My
mother abruptly stopped me in
my typing tracks to remind me.
Christmas isn’t about showing
people their worth through the
gifts you give them; big or
small. The gifts we give are
supposed to represent the
greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ.
This wasn’t the article I
meant to write, but it certainly
is one that needed to be writ-ten.
A Reminder
Jen Sayler
Pulse Co-Editor
From Jen’s Mom to you
10. Elf – A modern clas-sic.
Will Ferrell’s iconic goof
of a giant elf is too fun, funny,
and sweet not to love.
9. The Santa Claus(e) – All
I know is Tim Allen’s career
went straight down the toilet
once he got out of that fat suit.
8. The Grinch – A fun and
spirited adaptation of a holiday
classic.
7. Nightmare Before
Christmas – The ultimate in
alternative holiday entertain-ment.
Never mind that Jack
Skellington has become an
icon for alt culture. This fun
and frothy film holds up.
6. Love, Actually – Yeah,
it’s hokey. But it’s good hokey.
5. National Lampoon’s
Christmas Vacation – Remem-ber
when National Lampoon’s
was actually cool? Check out
the franchise before it went
direct-to-video and started
sucking.
4. A Charlie Brown Christ-mas
– “I didn’t know it was
such a bad little tree. It’s not
bad at all, really. Maybe all it
needs is a little love.”
3. Home Alone 1 and 2 –
Christmas cheer plus more hit-in-
the-groin gags than you can
shake a candy cane at.
2. A Christmas Story – The
film that made us all want to
go lick a lamppost.
1. It’s a Wonderful Life –
Remember how you could
barely stand to watch this
movie when you were little?
Watch it again. It’s better than
you remember.
Honorable Mentions:
White Christmas,
Rudolph, Die Hard, Frosty
The Snow Man, and Bad
Santa
Classic
Holiday
Movies
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1. Jingle Bells
2. Rockin’ Around the
Christmas
3. Silver Bells
4. O come, O Come
Emmanuel
5. The Christmas Song
(Chestnuts Roasting
on an Open Fire)
6. The Wassail Song
(Here We Come a
Caroling)
7. Silent Night
8. Grandma Got Run
Over by a Reindeer
9. Carol of the Bells
10. Hark the Herald
Angels
11. Joy to the World
12. Dance of the Sugar
Plum Fairy
13. Away in a Manger
14. The First Noel
15. Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer
Special
Holiday
Edition!
Travel Tips
Joe Giovannetti
Pulse Co-Editor
With so many NPUers
traveling in the com
ing weeks, we
thought it would be appropri-ate
to offer some tips and ideas
for the coming season of giv-ing
and traveling.
- Wear comfy clothes.
Whether on a plane, train, or
car, it always pays to be as
comfortable as possible.
- If you have a portable
music device, make sure it is
charged or that you have fresh
batteries before you leave. The
last thing you want is for it to
die with hours left to go.
- Of course, after finals,
reading may be the last thing
you want to do. But if you’re
still in the mood, don’t forget
to grab a book. Try John
Grisham’s Skipping Christmas
to put you in the holiday mood.
- If you’re on a plane or
a train, strike up a conversa-tion
with someone sitting near
you. Ask them where they’re
going and what they’re doing
for the holidays.
- If you’re driving,
force whoever is with you to
play license plate bingo.
- If you can, knit or cro-chet
as many scarves or hats
as you possibly can. Wrap
them up and kiss Christmas
shopping goodbye.
- Don’t forget to pack
extra underwear. You will al-ways
need extra underwear.
- Call your parents the
day before you leave just to tell
them how excited you are to
be coming home. It will make
their day.
- If you don’t have one,
remind your parents that trav-eling
would be a lot more fun
if you had an iPod.
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- Puzzles -
Jen Sayler
Pulse Co-Editor
Stuff To Do This
Weekend
500 Clown (sings)
Christmas Carol(s)
$10-15
Storefront Theatre,
66 E. Randolph
A Night with the
Sleeptights (and oth-ers)
The Sleeptights feature
North Park students
Aaron Moon and Brett
Daniels
No cover
The Hollywood Bar
Bryn Mawr and
Spaulding
Friday @ 9pm
On campus events:
Kiva Couture Fashion
Show (7pm)
Jingle Jangle Jam
(8pm-1am)
Santa Lucia Reception
Polar Express – An
IMAX 3D Experience
$12.50-14.50
Navy Pier
Check listings for times
10th Annual
Christkindlmarket Chi-cago
Daley Plaza 50
W.Washington St.
A German style bazaar
including homemade
glass ornaments and
wassail. Bring the
kids!
Friday – Saturday
11am to 9pm
Brian & Patrick’s Holi-day
Show
$8-10
Second City Skybox
1608 N. Wells St.
Friday @ 7:30pm
To Make Your Season Bright!
S p o r t s
8 N o r t h P a r k P r e s s F r i d a y , 9 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
Ramblings of the Week
North Park Athlete of
the Week
Brian Thompson
Sports Editor
CCIW Basketball
Standings
Greatest College
Athletes Continued
Brian Thompson
Sports Editor
Women:
Ill. Wesleyan 3-2
North Park 4-3
North Central 2-3
Carthage 2-3
Augustana 3-2
Milikin 3-0
Elmhurst 4-1
Wheaton 5-1
Men:
Ill. Wesleyan 5-0
Augustana 5-0
North Central 3-0
Milikin 4-1
Elmhurst 3-2
Wheaton 2-3
North Park 2-3
Carthage 1-5
Nathan Vasher has to be
named to the Pro Bowl.
There is no way that a
player who has had such a
spectacular impact this season
can be left on the sideline. Hear
me when I say this, best corner
on the Bears, best corner in the
NFC, and one of the best in the
NFL.
Despite the lack of black
coaches in the NFL, the top
three coaches are all black.
Tony Dungy has led the Colts
to an 11-0 start, while Lovie
Smith and Marvin Lewis have
the Bears and Bengals of two
9-3 starts.
This is going to be the last
time I say this before it
becomes fact. Reggie Bush
will win the Heisman trophy.
This year’s Rose Bowl
will be one of the best in recent
history when Texas plays USC.
The Bluejays definitely
believe in wasting their money.
They gave A.J. Burnett a 5
year, 55 million dollar contract
despite the fact he was 12-12,
including his last seven starts.
Before this, they signed B.J.
Ryan to the most lucrative deal
ever given to a reliever making
him the highest paid reliever.
Leon Powe is back. In his
first two games back he has
averaged 26.5 points per game
and 10 rebounds.
I hope Tony Dungy will
play his starters as the season
winds down. This team has a
chance to make history and
injury be damned these guys
should want to finally shut
those 1972 Dolphins up.
Wherever T.O. is, he is
smiling. The Eagles were
destroyed by the Seahawks
42-0. I mean I know I’ve been
a little hard on Owens, but
maybe it is time to swallow
some pride and bring him
back.
Isaiah Thomas is
determined to get Ruben
Patterson to the Knicks. My
only question is, why? Why
would you bring in the self
proclaimed “Kobe stopper” to
your already volatile mix of
players?
The most staggering
statistic I have seen in the
NBA is Chris Paul who is
almost averaging as many
rebounds as Eddy Curry. This
despite the fact that Curry is
almost a foot taller than Paul
and plays in a much weaker
conference.
And Now I present to you, my
list of the greatest athletes ever
to compete in the NCAA.
5. Barry Sanders, RB,
Oklahoma State: His 1988
season was arguably the finest
ever by a running back at the
college level. He rushed for
2,628 yards, and had over
3,400 all-purpose yards to go
along with 39 touchdowns. He
carried the ball 344 times
averaging 7.6 yards per carry.
4. Magic Johnson, G,
Michigan State: He put up
impressive numbers as a
freshman (17.0 ppg, 7.9 rpg,
7.4 apg), leading the Spartans
to a 25-5 record and the Big
Ten Conference title. As an
All-American sophomore
Johnson directed his team to
the national title in 1979,
beating Indiana State and
Larry Bird in perhaps the most
anticipated (and most
watched) NCAA
Championship Game ever
played.
3. Pistol Pete Maravich, G,
LSU: He shot early and often
and made a high enough
percentage to become college
basketball’s first and only
point-a-minute scorer. Playing
for his father, Press Maravich,
at Louisiana State University,
he scored 3,667 points in 83
games for an average of 44.2
a game over his three-year
career.
2. Ty Detmer, QB, BYU: A
two-time All-American
quarterback at Brigham Young
This week’s player of the week is senior guard Bjorn
Berg. In two Viking victories last week, it was Berg
who sealed the win both nights. He was also named
CCIW player of the week.
Photo by Karl Brorson
A Sit Down With... All Conference Senior Wide Receiver Sherman Gant.
During this past football
season, senior wide
receiver Sherman Gant
led the team in receiving yards
with 49 catches and 842 yards.
He was also amongst the
conference leaders in all-purpose
yards with 1101 yards
total and an average of 122.3
yards per game. I got a chance
to sit with the second team all
conference receiver to discuss
this past season among other
things.
Brian Thompson: How do
you train during the off-season?
Sherman Gant: Well I lift 5 to
6 days out the week, and
Tuesdays & Thursdays I work
on my sprints.
BT: How did it feel to be
named to the 2nd team all
conference?
SG: Being name 2nd team was
great. It makes you feel good
knowing that your one of the
studs in the conference.
BT: Did it mean more to you
that this honor came during
your senior year?
SG: It means a lot because I
was a two year starter prior
two this season and I just felt I
didn’t want to be just someone
who starts. I wanted to be an
all conference player.
BT: What is your favorite on
the field memory?
SG: Since this is about me, the
2004 season versus University
of Chicago I had a 60 yard
reverse for a touchdown. I
finished with 4 catches for 129
yards, 1 touchdown and 60
yards rushing. That was fun.
BT: Who do you model your
game after?
SG: Hines Ward. He’s one of
A Word from the
Editor:
Well, it’s been a good
year here for the North
Park Press. I would like
to take this time to thank
all the athletes and of
course the readers of the
sports section. Your
support and criticism are
needed/appreciated.
North Park guard Ed Whitaker drives to the lane in the
Vikings loss this past Tuesday.
Photo by Eric Staswick
the best and is underrated.
BT: What is the toughest
team you have played all
year? Who is the best player
(offense or defense) you’ve
played against?
SG: The toughest Augie, Best
offense player Kam Kniss of
North Central, best Defense
player Tom Anthony of
Augustana.
BT: Who do you feel is the
best athlete on the team (not
including yourself)?
SG: Raymond Decatur,
Ahkeem Waterford, and
Brandon Watts.
BT: Who do you feel will
make the biggest impact of
the returning players?
SG: Brandon Watts
University, in 1990 and 1991,
Detmer won the 1991
Heisman Trophy as a junior. In
four years as a starter, Detmer
completed 958 of 1,530 passes
for 15,031 yards and 121
touchdowns, with only 65
interceptions. He holds NCAA
career records for attempts,
completions, yards passing,
and touchdown passes.
1. Jim Brown, RB, Syracuse:
Today he is an activist, but
back in the day, he was the
baddest player in any sport. He
was bigger, faster and stronger
than anyone else with the
quickness to be considered one
of the greatest lacrosse players
to ever play and the power to
require several tacklers to
bring him down in football.
Before coming to SU, Brown
won letters in football
(averaging 14.9 yards per
carry), lacrosse, basketball
(averaging 38 points per
game), baseball and track and
was originally recruited to SU
for lacrosse.
Brian Thompson
Sports Editor